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25 de jun. de 2022 · Yes, William Parsons, the Third Earl of Rosse, built his own telescope, known as the “Leviathan of Parsonstown”. It was a reflecting telescope with an aperture of 1.8m, making it the largest known telescope of its time. Parsons began building the Leviathan in 1842 and first used it in 1845. He also improved the techniques of casting ...
4 de abr. de 2024 · M33. William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse (born June 17, 1800, York, England—died October 31, 1867, Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland) was an Irish astronomer and builder of the largest reflecting telescope, the “ Leviathan ,” of the 19th century. In 1821 Parsons was elected to the House of Commons. He resigned his seat in 1834 but in 1841 ...
Laurence Michael Harvey Parsons, 6th Earl of Rosse, KBE (28 September 1906 – 5 July 1979) was an Anglo-Irish peer. Early life and education [ edit ] Parsons was the son of William Edward Parsons, 5th Earl of Rosse , whom he succeeded in 1918, and Frances Lois Lister-Kaye, daughter of Sir Cecil Edmund Lister-Kaye, 4th Bt. and Lady Beatrice Adeline Pelham-Clinton.
17 de ago. de 2015 · Based on: William Parsons, 3 rd Earl of Rosse: Astronomy and the Castle in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Edited by Mollan Charles (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2014). Pp. xxii + 368. £70. ISBN 9780719091445
Styled Lord Oxmantown from 1807 to 1841, Parsons was the eldest son of the 2nd Earl of Rosse, of Birr Castle near Parsonstown, King's County [co. Offaly] in Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was M.P. for King's County between 1821 and 1834 under his father's influence, whom he succeeded in ...
Rosse, Third Earl of (William Parsons) (1800–1867) William Parsons, the third Earl of Rosse, was an Irish astronomer who, in 1845, built by far the largest telescope in the world at the time, a 72-inch (1.8-meter) reflector, in the grounds of Birr Castle, Parsonstown.
The eldest, Lawrence Parsons, 4th earl of Rosse, and Baron Oxmantown, born on the 17th of November 1840, succeeded to the title on his father’s death, and made many investigations on the heavenly bodies, particularly on the radiation of the moon and related physical questions; the youngest, the Hon. Charles Algernon Parsons, born on the 13th of June 1854, is famous for his commercial ...
